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A forum search (both here and elsewhere) may provide some answers, or perhaps more questions.

One thing that they have in common is that they attempt to describe tunes in melodic terms. If that's an angle you're interested in The melodic tradition of Ireland by James Cowdery may be of interest to you. It's from 1990 and probably out of print but interlibrary loans may be available. ISBN 0 8...

'Traditionsl music in Ireland by Tomás O'Cannain.. London : Roudledge Keegan Paul, 1978 ISBN 0 7100 00219

Chapter 3 The structure of Irish traditional music pp 27-39

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It's nice to see that back out there. I bought a copy of the lp in a clearance sale during the seventies for what would now be the equivalent of 3 euro. I listened to it a lot at the time. Some years ago I even got a spare copy off ebay for a similar amount, nobody else seemed interested, which seem...

There you go, courtesy of the Waybackmachine :

Norman Dannatt's collection

Norman Frederick Dannatt died on the 3d of September 2017.

FWIW Norman Dannatt, according to posts on this forum some twenty years ago, had an extensive collection of Clarkes. There may even have have been a page about it on the old C&F main site (I have a dim memory of something like it) but you'll have to trawl the Wayback machine and hope for the bes...

The internet isn't the ultimate font of knowledge, sources exist outside it. :wink: And anyway, I obviously make all this stuff up as I go along. Dannatt's book has some information, if you read between the lines. It shows, if anything, the history of Clarke's was chequered with several family membe...

Generations possibly go back to the late 19th century, but at least to the early 20th. If you go by the lettering used on the earlier ones. I would put yours, broadly, in the first half or earliervdecades of the 20th century. The Calura probably pre WW2. Lastly, I have a "Made in Germany" ...

Eamonn Cotter does, Geert LeJeune had several when I saw him last summer, including a very nice boxwood one. But others too, F flutes are having their day at the moment, 'everybody' seems to be playing them. Here's Eamonn playing one of his own recently: https://i.postimg.cc/Y9xRZ0cQ/DSC-1994-1-smal...

I am a stickler for originality, and since Derrick made me a lovely set of pipes I figured a new strap from the workshop would look a sight better than a belt from K’Mart. I just recently replaced the arm strap on my own bellows. To my mind, these things are consumables and in my experience any dec...

the dog legitimately chewed the strap off my bellows….

That's easily fixed without the pipemaker's intervention isn't it?

They were obviously desperate measures at a time flutes were hard to come by and the ones that could be had were old ones. There were no makers or maintenance people or other respuces to turn to. People tried to make the best of what resources and knowledge they had available to them.

A lot of the old players used to dip or pour water down their flutes before playing. The water, or porter, whatever was handy, would possibly seal any cracks or leaks in the flute. There us a famous story that Martin Rochford told about the first broadcast the Tulla did: one of them took the flutes ...

Was that you playing the recorder on thesession?


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